Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Another big trend in the IT press forecasts is the much heralded decline of the traditional PC – laptops and desktop computers. The Decline of PCs.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sometimes a case — like a malpractice suit or a labor dispute — requires special expertise, so judges send court clerks to a law library, looking for precedents and specific cases they can cite. But to deliver authoritative answers that cite sources, the model needs an assistant to do some research. RAG doesn’t require a data center.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A few weeks ago, the San Francisco Public Library hosted an event with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for citizen digital rights. All of this software is free and much of it is open source. Loss of valuable hardware aside, your laptop is full of confidential data.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

. “ Pimloc has been working with diverse image and video content for several years supporting businesses with a host of classification, moderation and data protection challenges (image libraries, art galleries, broadcasters and CCTV providers),” CEO Simon Randall tells TechCrunch.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

It’s no longer just about the phones themselves but about how these phones interact with the other computers in your life, whether they’re laptops, desktops, or even game consoles. Look at all three, though, and you can clearly see a trend: the boundaries between what is a phone, a tablet, and a laptop are becoming blurrier than ever.

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

This goes for laptops as well as any servers or databases. ClamAV is a popular open-source option. DBAN is one popular open-source option to assist with this. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Use antivirus software and keep it up to date. Want more tips like this?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

While you would naturally declare all this when you publish, there’s no guarantee anyone has an Ubuntu laptop with a working Rstudio setup around, so even if you provide all the code it might be for nothing. Right now there are about 2,000 public compute capsules on Code Ocean, most of which are associated with a published paper.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 6, 2023

To start exploring I needed a good approach for performing data analysis over thousands of poorly documented JSON and CSV files … extra points for analysis that doesn’t require my data to leave my laptop. Enter DuckDB  — a lightweight, free yet powerful analytical database designed to streamline data analysis workflows — that runs locally.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. "The creativity and connectivity explosion via social media, free, and open-source tools, and nonprofits having more direct control in communications and fundraising. Privacy and Security.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

These include: A built-in library of eLearning assets. This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. A content library of ready-to-use templates.

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

She did so using a piece of free open-source software called Bitsy which, since its release five years ago, has become one of the easiest ways to start making video games. In order to make a game on his commute without getting his laptop out, Le Doux devised an ingenious “jerry-rigged” setup.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Docker containers bundle up an application with everything it needs (like libraries and other dependencies) and ship it as one package. This means that the application will run the same way, no matter where the Docker container is deployed — whether it’s on your laptop, a colleague’s machine, or a cloud server. enableHiveSupport().getOrCreate()

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Anyscale, a startup founded by a team out of UC Berkeley who created the Ray open-source Python framework for running distributed computing projects, has raised $40 million. “What we are trying to build will make it as easy to build a distributed computing project as it would be to run a program on your laptop.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 2, 2025

I’ve spent months experimenting with voice AI toolsfirst on my phone, and now on my laptop. Those become part of your personalized prompt library for transforming future recordings. I use these on my laptop because its quicker and easier for me to talk than to type. Open-source options abound.

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